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A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on August 18, 2011. (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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An Iranian woman holds both Ukrainian and Iranian flags at a demonstration for peace in Cologne, Germany, on November 5, 2022. (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Sailors salute the American Flag during morning colors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross on June 11, 2017, at Naval Station Rota in Spain. (US Navy photo by Robert S. Price)
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Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone, which local authorities believe to be Iranian-made Shahed-136, in central Kyiv on October 17, 2022. (Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A Russian T-72 tank fires during joint military exercises between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Iran, Pakistan, and Myanmar at the Raevsky range in Southern Russia on September 23, 2020, during the "Caucasus-2020" military drills. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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Missiles fire over the Caspian Sea during the Caucasus-2020 military drills between Iran, China, Russia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus, on September 23, 2020. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Harry S. Truman receives a menorah from Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Ambassador of Israel to the United States Abba Eban in the Oval Office on May 8, 1951. (Wikimedia Commons)
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US soldiers coordinate boat movement during a wet-gap crossing operation as part of joint military drills Dęblin, Poland, on May 13, 2022. (Army National Guard Photo)
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Ukrainian solders conduct squad battle drills as part of Operation Fearless Guardian II, an initiative to increase Ukrainian defense compatibility with NATO forces, in Ukraine on December 15, 2015. (US Army Photo by Adriana M. Diaz-Brown)
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An Azerbaijani soldier keeping guard by the Aras River, which forms much of Azeri-Iranian border, in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan, on December 7, 2020. (Murat Kaynak/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)
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Mansu Hill Grand Monument in Pyongyang, North Korea, on January 2, 2017. (Wikimedia Commons)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
